11.  Face it, Switzer admits, an effective offense means a more effective defense.

12.  For Van de Velde, humor is a reflex, a self-deprecating tic that has proved an effective public defense against his tragicomic experience in Scotland last month.

13.  For two years, he was left hanging, and was denied an effective defense when record books that he believed would clear him disappeared in White House hands.

14.  He fell behind, no balls and two strikes, and fouled off a low curveball, effective defense against the strikeout.

15.  Less American deference to Saudi government sensitivities could have allowed the construction of a more effective defense perimeter at Dhahran.

16.  Matthew McConaughey is the initially nonpartisan real-estate lawyer who figures out an effective defense strategy.

17.  Nothing can kill an effective defense more quickly than the prosecution knowing what the defense strategy will be.

18.  Surveys show that most Americans do not know or care that there is no effective defense against an enemy long-range missile attack with nuclear-tipped warheads.

19.  That is the most effective defense.

20.  The court overturned that conviction because his lawyer had not provided the minimally effective defense guaranteed by the Constitution.